Why this word is great
INDIGITATE — [Verb] To proclaim or invoke, or to indicate with precise, often ritualistic, pointing. From the Latin indigitāre ("to call upon a deity, to proclaim"), of uncertain origin, but later associated with digitus ("finger"). Unlike "announce," which implies a public broadcast of news, or "designate," which focuses on the assignment of a role, to indigitate is a specific, archaic gesture of revelation. It is the priest raising a single digit to name a god in the smoke, the witness’s trembling hand singling out the culprit from a lineup, or the scholar’s precise indication of a single star on a celestial chart—a vestigial motion that insists a singular truth be seen, named, and summoned into being.